Removed to Lifeboats; Liners Hastening to the Rescue; Wireless Messages Come to Abrupt Termination; Over 2,000 Souls on Board”.

The ship had already sunk by the time the report appeared in the second edition of the Belfast Telegraph.

The telegram was presented to Belfast Telegraph sub-editor Robert McComb on his retirement and is expected to generate huge interest at the April 21st sale.

Auctioneer Ian Whyte said: “It is difficult to comprehend the disbelief and shock which must have greeted this telegram as it arrived in the office of the biggest-selling newspaper in Titanic’s home city, Belfast.”

“The sale will attract interest from collectors and museums worldwide.”